Maxime Bouet to swap Tour de France for Giro and Vuelta in 2014

Maxime Bouet proved his management right as he scored Ag2r-La Mondiale’s first WorldTour point of the season by finishing fifth on stage 1 of the Santos Tour Down Under in Angaston. The 27-year-old Frenchman was designated as the captain for the Australian trip as more responsibilities await him at the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España this season. Bouet will skip the Tour de France, in which he participated in the past five years.

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